Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself.
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.
Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
